Ideas on tech, startups, context, and how things change.

Category: Context

July has not been very kind to Samsung. Between disappointing revenue numbers, weak consumer interest in the S5, and an uphill battle in China, there’s been a fair amount of speculation that Samsung’s time at the top of the Android pile may not last for much longer. There’s also been a very interesting narrative being … More Should Samsung make a deal with the devil? (Yeah, probably)

Despite the ever-ongoing increases in available processing power predicted by Moore’s law, human beings can only pay a finite amount of attention to what’s in front of them at any given moment. Plenty of people realize this, especially concerning the rise of smart watches: at Google I/O recently, we were told that ‘the average Android … More Smartwatches and the triage nurse problem

Last fall, right around when Backtrack partnered up with TandemLaunch as an incubated investment, I ran into someone from the McGill research community where I did my Master’s work. When asked what I was up to since I graduated, I told them that I was in the early stages of starting a company; to which … More Oh Canada

It seems as though whenever something particularly wild happens in Silicon Valley, someone makes the comparison to Hollywood. Startup founders are like directors, pitching their companies/film scripts to VCs / producers inside a crazy world of connections and hype where no one really knows the winning formula, but everybody wants to get in on ‘the … More Term sheets: VCs versus record labels